@Chicken
I scan my pencil-drawn BG's first (usually I trace them in black ink afterwords). I open them up in PSP7, (which I downloaded the trial at Jasc's site, but did the bad thing and downloaded a crack
Suck my meat!1!) darken the pencil, resize accordingly (for 320/240, etc...). From there I color them in MSpaint and do touch ups such as burring and frigging with different color tones and balancing using PSP7.
For an example, visit the link in my sig and look at the screenshot. Some of you may think it's crap, but I'm very proud with how it came out.
--Snake
I scan my pencil-drawn BG's first (usually I trace them in black ink afterwords). I open them up in PSP7, (which I downloaded the trial at Jasc's site, but did the bad thing and downloaded a crack

For an example, visit the link in my sig and look at the screenshot. Some of you may think it's crap, but I'm very proud with how it came out.
--Snake